The Friday 56: "It's the Environment, Stupid"

The Friday 56 is hosted by Storytime with Tonya and Friends

RULES

1. Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
2. Turn to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like).
5. Post a link with your post to Storytime (and here on Bryan’s Book Blog, I’d like to know what book you’ve got at hand).

Oddly enough, the closest books at hand either do not have a 56th page (a children’s picture book and a handful of audiobooks) or do not have any dialogue on page 56 (Silent But Deadly: Another Liō Collection by Mark Tatulli). However, the next closest book to hand was one of the books I’ll be teaching from this semester at WWU, Sustaining Words: Readings in Consumption and Complexity, Responsibility and Renewal edited by Scott Stevens (who is the composition director in the English Department). So, this week’s Friday 56 comes from an essay by Paul Hawken titled “A Teasing Irony”:

“It is like being a single parent when the dog has run away, the children are fighting, the dinner is burning, the babysitter hasn’t shown up, we are late for the PTA meeting, and have just spilled gravy on the carpet when someone doing a survey knocks at the door and wants to know how we feel about the proposed landfill at the edge of town” (56).